Cutting the Cheese

Today, Doug Pike discusses cutting the cheese, bribery, and Fentanyl.

Episode Transcript

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Remember when it was impossible to misplacethe TV remote because you were the TV
remote. Remember when music sounded likethis, Remember when social media was truly
social? Hey John, how's itgoing today? Well, this show is
all about you. This is fiftyplus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on

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your finances, good health, andwhat to do for fun. Fifty plus
brought to you by the UT HealthHouston Institute on Aging Informed Decisions for a
healthier, happier life, and byTexas Indoor Air Quality Specialists because clean air
is healthier air. And now fiftyplus with Doug Pike. All right,

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welcome to fifty plus. Certainly doappreciate you joining us on this Tuesday afternoon.
Not bad, not supposed to beany rain for the rest of the
week. Well, I'm teasing myweather in ten I guess coming up with
that with that statement. I'll tellyou more about that in a second.
There's really will Did you have anythinggo on over the weekend or yesterday?

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Now? I came in and Iran garden line over the weekend. Oh
that's right, I saw you,didn't I? Oh yeah, briefly,
briefly, Why did you have tocome in? Was there some hulla balue
some snow. We were gonna havea new producer for garden line, but
he hasn't started yet, so Ifilled in. Okay, fair enough,

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I'll go straight to weather in tenseconds courtesy of Texas Indoor Air Quality Specialist
since I've already kind of let thecat out of the bag. T I
a Q Specialists because cleaner air ishealthier air. Little or no rain right
through the end of the week,okay, and if we get any of
it, it shouldn't amount too much. So they say, we've heard that

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before. Though, highs and thelow nineties, lows in the high seventies,
which isn't really bad compared to atypical July or August day or September
day or late June day. Yeah, the upward trend will continue. I've
got some things being done in myhouse now that are gonna gonna help me

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keep the house a little cooler aswe creep into the ugly part of summer.
And it better work. Holy cow. Now, if we go to
the market, where three of thefour big indices are or at least were
an hour ago in the red theonly green one, by the way,
the dow was up just barely atenth of a point didn't really amount to
much oil. Two Hour Delight wasdown again and at least around ten o'clock

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belows seventy three dollars a barrel.The most recent time I looked, which
was not that long ago, itwas starting to creep back upward, which
I don't like to see, butI'm really not surprised. At least if
we can get it down another fiveor six bucks, at least it'll make
driving around during summer vacations a littlebit more palatable, if you will.

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A little bit more gold courtesy ofHouston Gold Exchange sadly also down, this
time by thirty bucks, down totwenty three thirty eight last time I looked,
which is considerably down from the twentyfour hundred it did hit, but
considerably up from probably what most ofus in this audience paid for our most

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recent purchase, significant purchase anyway,of anything. Gold In local news where
the good guys do actually win sometimes, despite a lot of reports, a
man has been arrested and charged withthe killing of a twenty four year old
woman. He is alleged this manand I'm not going to go into detail
on that because I just want toI'm just going to give you the story.

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Alleged to have beaten her, shother multiple times, and left her
on the side of the road.Whoever did this there has there's been an
arrest made and the man's been charged, But whoever did it that gott need
to be back on the streets fora long, long, long long time.
Also, and I really liked thisone from Channel thirteen. I saw

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this story. Harris County Constable's OfficePrecinct one arrested a man recently on charges
of solicitation of a minor. Theguy thought he thought he was going to
meet an underaged girl for sex.But the person he'd met online and whom

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he was so eager to meet,well, that turned out to be an
undercover officer. That just I yay, just yay. Guy's currently out on
bond, and that that troubles mesome. I don't understand how we came
to the point where what I considera pretty significant crime lets people out just

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to kind of go on about theirbusiness and possibly disappear before their court date.
I'll be curious. I may tryto follow this one and just see
how long it takes to come toan outcome one way or the other.
In that one. From Newsweek,by way of Tennessee, comes a story
I can't ignore. I really can't. I don't know if you heard about

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this will I don't know if anybodytalked about it. Yesterday I was so
focused on not only getting a brandnew door installed for Primo Doors. By
the way, we finally got thatdone. Hooray. Is gorgeous, absolutely
gorgeous. But not only was thatgoing on yesterday, but also I had
my plumber, my favorite plumber fromWater of Texas is the company name I

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keep wanting to say, Waterboy.That's kind of in his email address the
Water of Texas. Michael came outyesterday and gave me the only good news
monetarily I got yesterday was that theproblem I thought was a big problem was
just a little problem, and hewas able to take care of it for
me. That's a good guy doinggood stuff. Michael Clayborne at Water of

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Texas if you're interested. So fromNewsweek comes this story that it's one that
every parent of every child needs tohear. Okay, Late this past month,
a six week old baby asleep inhis crib was attacked without any provocation

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or warning by the family's dog,a female husky that hadn't up until that
point shown any sign of aggression towardkids whatsoever, and that baby died of
the injuries. Unfortunately, that's justkind of all these people who say,
oh, no, this dog wouldn'thurt a fly, never never bothered anybody,

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never shown any signs of regression,No need to be worrisome around this
dog. That's what they were tellingeverybody they knew about their dog until then.
And now their baby is gone,six weeks old, killed in the
crib. According to the story,four million Americans are bitten by a dog,

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well not a dog, but bittenby dogs, not the same dog
every year in this country. Fourmillion dog bites in this country, and
dozens of people are killed by dogs, and tragically, most of the serious
injuries and deaths involve children. Andthat is horrific as far as I'm concerned.
All Right, moving on, Iwant to tell you about Alpine,

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Texas. If you don't know aboutit, Alpine got it right there in
the heart of the big bend outtoward and well not to but in West
Texas and surrounded surrounded by some ofthe most amazing landscapes, the most beautiful
night sky. It's one of thedarkest guys on the continent for stargazing.

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And if you are looking for somethingdifferent to do this fourth of July,
why don't you just go try Alpine. Celebrate Independence Day in small town style,
they like to say, with aparade, you got a baseball game,
you got wonderful summer theater presentation ofSherwood The Adventures of Robin Hood,
which was written by a man namedKen Ludwig. And an endless supply of

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no stretch, Well not no stretch, no stress, I said, correctly,
relaxation to find out more about Alpine, which is really a beautiful place.
You know. I say that nothaving been there, and I have
already made promises to get out thereas soon as we can arrange something,
maybe even some live broadcasts from outthere. Think that would be fine to

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do a weekend of live broadcast ormaybe a couple of weekdays. Who knows.
Nless supply of no stress relaxation soundspretty good to me. I gotta
tell you to find out more,go to visit ALPINETX dot com. That's
visit Alpine TX dot com. Agedto perfection. This is fifty plus with

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Dougpike. They met soon. WillStephen have a name? Yes, cut

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number seventeen, KPRC bumper mix numberforty four, forty four. We have
forty three other choices, and youchose those that? WHOA? I mean,
I pick them, ax them up, I pick them at random them
I feel like I hear the sameones every week. Oh, well you
probably do. You picked them atrandom. You don't pick them at random.

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You picked them at random a yearago. Now you're just stuck at
a rut. Let's make it well, let's mix it up. Okay,
mix it up with wine. Iknow it's a lot to ask. It
is a lot twenty one, ornumber thirty eight or number seven. I'm
telling you, I look, Ihave I have so many, I know

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so many. Don't be overwhelmed bythe number of choices. Just just just
swipe down real hard and let itscroll like the wheel on the price is
right, and then just punch abutton and stop it wherever it is.
There's definitely not actually forty four ofthem. I got a hunch there's more
than three. Well, yeah,we use no I cycled through. I

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put some different ones in there forsure, call me when you do next
time so I can here. Yeah, I know. Let's move on,
shall we? From the way toolittle, way too late? Desk comes
this. Remember all those many many, many, many many many times over
the past three and a half yearsthat our president looked into our eyes and

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said he couldn't do a thing aboutthe border without Congress. Well, he
can't ignore the polls anymore that arepretty much telling his team that the border
matters to Americans. So he isthrowing a hail Mary pass that I guess
he thinks will fool us all intothinking he cares by executive order the same

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way, by the way that hestopped all of the policies on the border
that President Trump had in place whenhe was elected. By his order,
he is going to shut down entry, limiting them only to twenty five hundred
daily. That's what he's decided ontwenty five hundred, because the original five

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thousand a day was just way toomany. Now that's only, by the
way, going to hike the numberswho are gonna slip in otherwise than at
checkpoints where they would be counted amongstthe twenty five hundred. It's just gonna
move them around a little bit.There's still going to be a powerful surge

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coming in here. And for therecord, twenty five hundred people a day
amounts to seventy five thousand a monthand change and little bitty change, but
it's changed. And that's about ninehundred thousand more people he wants to let
in every year until he potentially isreelected and can just decide that that was

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a bad idea. He's got toopen it back up and just let them
all in. Let them all jumpon top of what what now twelve fifty
million already here under this president's policies. I guess the left figures it's gotten
enough people here to secure political victoryfor years to come. Otherwise they leave
it open. Chuck Schumer said thispast week that the ultimate goal of his

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party and I talked about this isto enable what he called the eleven million
or so, some vague reference tothe number current unlawful immigrants the right to
vote. They're all awaiting hearings,which means that they are not well.
Some of them, in fairness,have been ushered in and promised to show

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up for a hearing at which theywill be heard and determined either to be
eligible to stay or not. Butthe bottom line is that many millions of
people. That's a lot if theycan get somehow squeezed through Congress before the
election, which is what they wouldprobably need to do, a lot of

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extra people going to the polls,a lot of extra people carrying around a
phone that we paid for, livingin accommodat very nice. Some of the
nicest hotels in New York now onehundred percent occupied by immigrants transported around on
our dime. Many of them enjoinedway more comforts than our nations poor,

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and just by day they sleep wellat night on they get to choose their
beds. In some areas, shoplifts and robbing people by night or by
day. And then in more thana few cases already we know committing violent
crimes, including the murders of Americans. And this president of ours even flew

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in thousands upon thousands of immigrants,flew them in straight here and dropped them
off at airports around the country soit wouldn't look so bad every time television
actually ran a little video from downon the border. It's been rough.

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It's been rough. Our political systemsturning into a very dangerous thing one that
imperils all of our liberties. Quitehonestly, whatever feel good executive orders present
Biden signs during the next four monthsalmost certainly are destined to be reconsidered and
torn up by the end of January, and onward we'll go with unaffordable policies

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with handouts for nations while our ownmilitary, veterans and homeless people are just
suffering tremendously, not to mention everyother American too. Saw a story today
about how many Americans, how manyaffluent Americans are turning to discount stores to
do their shopping because even they justcan't afford the things that used to not

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even matter to them price wise.Loaf of bread, a little blown ye,
all of that stuff is going upthirty forty to fifty percent just in
a couple of years, and thatis a significant hit. If you're used
to nice things, or you're usedto normal, ordinary things, whatever it

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is, your your normal was twothree years ago. You're paying forty fifty
percent more for that stuff right now. Ask yourself, when was the last
time you actually went to the grocerystore with a list and got out of
there for less than one hundred dollarsused to be about forty fifty dollars for
the same stuff. A late healthif you would rather not think about it,

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go ahead and schedule a procedure andget it done. A late Health A
L A T E dot com.Yeah, they sure don't make them like
they used to. That's why everyfew months we wash him, check his
fluids, and spring on a freshcode O wax. This is fifty plus
with Dougpike. I've heard that onewill one hundred times. Come on,

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man, and you know what,man, You're gonna hear it one hundred
more that threat. Yeah, thereis slee simple minded people will today?
Did you know that today will isNational Cheese Day? And to celebrate,
I brought this big block of cheesethis knife. Would you like to be
first to cut the cheese? Yes? I would? I bet you would.

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Yeah, you know, I'm alwaysthe first to cut the cheese.
Gotta give me a slice what theysay? Okay, well, now we're
gonna lighten it up for just aminute, because I got all this weird
stuff. On the other side.I do have some good medical news.
By the way, we'll get tothat a little later. Here's where you're
gonna choose from Will. It wouldbe from the desk of Why Breathe Deeply

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or Cicada Sicado Cicada Cicato, abar in Chicago. Will is selling five
dollars shots of a cicada infused liquor. I don't know what the liquor is.
And yes, it says here youare a post to eat the bug

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when you're done. It's got awhole cicada in the bottom of it.
It's not it's not like they groundthem up and just poured a little powder
in there or something sprinkle it ontop. No, the whole darn bug
is in the shot. There's apicture. Is it crunchy? I it
depends on how long it's been inthe glass. I bet it. If
they're if they're making them up fresh, which they should be, and how

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do they clean them? How dothey know where those things have been.
There's got to be some sort ofhealth that we're getting in the weeds on
this. We already are, butthere's got to be some sort of health
department rule about putting bugs in drinks. Hm, you know what they're gonna
do. Probably if they run outof cicadas somehow, that probably just drops
them imposter cockroaches in there. I'dbe yummy. Yeah, after four or

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five cicada shots, I bet youhalf the people who are drinking and would
go ahead and accept one with aroach in it. They wouldn't know the
difference. Nope, just cloud itup a little bit and see that,
and I think i'd try it.No, you would not. You're smarter
than fifty plus on the road.And they go to Chicago, Windy City,

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they say they haven't been to CorpusChristie. Well, there are a
lot of those this year. Fortunatelywe're not in the area where they it
was that once in one hundred thousandmillion years. No, yeah, situation
to where they're a triple population orwhatever. All right, I'll let you
choose from three more that are noteven weren't included in that one, So

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you're excused, And no, youcannot keep it I still love that state
or concerning trend, No, youcannot keep it. That's a good one.
Actually, a j it's kind offunny, and hats off to them
for doing the right thing. Ajuror in a fraud case was dismissed from

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jury duty yesterday after a woman droppeda bag of a hundred and twenty thousand
dollars in cash at her home andoffered her even more money if she would
vote to acquit seven people charged withstealing. And she called. She called

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the law said, you know what, these people aren't going to bribe me.
Come not with just one hundred andwhatever. No, she did the
right thing. Would you do thatnow? If somebody offer you a buck
twenty one hundred and twenty thousand dollarswill to get them out of a parking
ticket? All that all it was. No, it's theft charges. They're

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accused of stealing. It doesn't saywhat I'm going to get us a bank?
Well, I might have stole thewhole bank, might have stolen the
whole bank. Will I don't know? You just just please reassure me that
you wouldn't you would call the lawand say, hey, we have a
problem. You want to just playthe fifth one hundred and twenty bones.

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Huh. It's a lot of money, Doug, isn't it. Though.
It's a lot of money, alot of cheese. I could bye with
that. You could, No,you could. I'm gonna go ahead and
say she's a dork. No,she's not a dork. She's an honest
woman. Back to the military,when I was talking about our veterans being

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homeless and whatnot and suffering, Rememberthat attempted breach at Marine based Quantico a
few weeks ago. Turns out,according to an admiral I saw interviewed this
morning. I don't know where hewas and it was. I don't think
the interview was this morning, butI saw it this morning. There have
been more than a few attempts madeby foreign nationals who've come here in recent

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years to get past front gate securityat lots of bases. This admiral,
Okay, this admiral told Fox Newsin the interview, I saw that just
at domestic navy bases, attempted incursionsare happening several times a week, several

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times a week. These are dryruns, they're intelligence gathering episodes. I'm
convinced of that that use all kindsof means and method including drones, by
the way, And I think whatthey're doing is just gathering up information on
the responses to those threats and howthey might be able to work around them,

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to go through them whatever. Theseare young men from a number of
nations, including China, including Russia, and the story is typically that we're
just students here or we're tourists andwe just want to see the ships.
We love ships. Fat chants.Fat chants turn them away. Every time

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time they do that, they turnthem away. And so far, well,
we really can't know what they've figuredout and learned from what they've seen.
But it's frightening, it really is. I'll get to this medical news.
We'll do some silly stuff when weget back. We're pretty close to
break time here. I'll go aheadand do that now so we can stay
ahead. That's just for a change. Will you know how many breaks on

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average I hit on time on mySaturday programs, which have one, two,
four, six, seven, eight, until eleven breaks in the in
the in the three hours you hitthem on time on time. I'm gonna
go with how many out of eleven? Oh, I'll say nine out of
eleven two high, okay, sixout of it two none out of eleven,

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maybe one two on a good day. Yeah, I got stuff to
say, will I know? Ithink it's it's so rare when you get
out on time, come on thisshow, you know. Never mind,
we got well, let's do itnow too late. Well, technically we
got in late, so I'm stillon time. Technically quiet, I got

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stuff to do here, will allright in time. Kirks Kirk Holmes Building
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sounds like a good plan. Fiftyplus continues. Here's more with Doug.

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Will ask me if I had heardjust what is it called? It's not
a what is it a rejoint?I guess of course I've heard them all.
Will you only play like six ofthem over the past? What how
many years you've been here? Nine? Ten, fifteen twenty. No,
all right, not two, abouttwo. I've been here for three years,

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okay, and working with you foryear and a half or so,
two years, and yeah, i'veheard like six two years in the six
Johns will that's it? Two anda half years. They'll try to inflate
it all. Where do I wantto go? Oh? This is kind
of cool. This is another goodguys story. And for every just understand

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that for every one of whatever thisis slipped through. That's what scares me,
honestly. Drug Enforcement Administration DEA,working with what it called countless law
enforcement agencies from the local level allthe whip to the FEDS, wrapped up
Operation Last Mile with three thousand,three hundred and thirty seven arrests. And

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if you're wondering what that netted themin contraband, they also seized well,
how many fentanyl pills did they seize? Maybe like half a dozen or something?
Yeah, close forty four million,forty four million pills of something that

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one dose can kill somebody, sixtyfive hundred pounds of fentanyl powder, ninety
one thousand pounds of meth, andnearly eighty five hundred firearms. And because
you can't run an operation like thatwithout money more than one hundred million dollars

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if you've got international travel plans.By the way, I saw this story
from Fox News's Melissa Rudy that manyroutinely prescribed medications in our country are either
highly controlled or outright illegal in othercountries. The best way to learn about
that, and this is just somethingto tuck away in case you're planning on

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going somewhere, and like most ofus, you take a regular medication of
any sort. Best way to findout whether what you're carrying is legal or
not is to contact that country's embassyor consulate. People there can advise you.
And I presume that if you cansubstantiate the need, if you can

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back it up with a doctor's noteor something, they should provide you with
documents that allow you to bring yourspecific medications, at least in quantities that
match the length of your stay.You can't take ten pounds of whatever pills
in there if you're only going tobe there for a week. Unless you're
pills weigh a pounds apiece, youcan take it to match the length to

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day. I'm sure otherwise you couldwind up being detained at best, and
questioned, and what nott are possiblyeven charged and jailed, which has happened
in some cases. How much timedo I have? Will about five?
Four? Two minutes? Two?Come on, Okay, I'm gonna save
this good news. No, I'mgonna do this. I'm gonna do this

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Medical news. Science scientists excuse me, say they've discovered a genetic basis of
a disorder that causes intellectual disability androughly one in twenty thousand young people.
It's a very rare disease, arare, rare condition. However, if
it's your child, it matters toyou that they have found this out.

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There's still a lot of research tobe done, but this discovery just holds
tremendous, tremendous potential moving forward.Also from the med desk, a specific
gene therapy is enabling children born witha rare genetic condition that causes hearing loss
to hear. They can hear now, and there's not a lot of them.

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It's a very small study group andit's around the world, though it's
in a couple of different countries.They've tested this and they're only testing kids
with one specific type of deafness.But this is expected to open a much
wider door. Basically, the restorationof hearing for kids who haven't been able
to hear since the time they wereborn. That's just fascinating. I found

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out reading that story too, thatthere are thirty four million kids who've either
they either have some hearing loss orcomplete hearing loss. And everyone we fix
is just a better It makes theworld a better place as far as I'm
concerned. Oh will, how muchtime? Nothing? Huh twenty seconds America's
oldest craft brewer, Anchor Brewing beingrevived. I don't like that trend.

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Honestly, we're doing more revivals thanoriginals in this country. Movies, breweries,
all that stuff. This country wasbuilt on originality, not repetition.
Although we will repeat this show tomorrow, thanks for listening. Audios